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Events

1) March 15th, 10 a.m MCML 154:

• St. Patrick’s day themed meeting.
  • Look forward to chocolate-mint fondue, with all your favorite green fruits and green tea!
  • $2 for non-members

2) March 22, 10 a.m MCML 154:

• Desiree Nielsen, a dietitian who previously worked at Choices market, will be coming in to speak to us.  This is an opportunity to meet and talk to a dietitian in a comfortable environment.
• Everyone is welcome!
• $2 for non-members.

3) April 5, 10 a.m MCML 154:

• For our last meeting we will be having an LDOC (last day of classes) breakfast!  What better way to celebrate the term coming to an end then will delicious waffles!  Everyone is welcome!
  • $2 for non-members

Friday, February 15 at 10:00 in MCML 154 we will be having a very special Valentine’s day themed meeting!

We will be having fruit and chocolate fondue and a speech carousel.  What is a speech carousel you may ask?  We have come up with various topics that are quite broad and are centered around our Valentine’s day theme.  You will be assigned a random topic and will have the opportunity to get up in front of an audience and discuss the topic.  This is a great opportunity to step outside of your comfort zone and to organize you thoughts on the spot!

The event will be $2 for non-members and free for members.  Everyone is welcome and we will be selling memberships for $5!

Hope to see you there!

Attention all current and future dietetics applicants!

NutriSocial will be hosting a peer review session next Wednesday January 16th from 1-3 p.m in 519 in Frank Forward Building!  Current dietetics students will help you refine your cover letter and resume!

• Fee is $2 for non-members and is free for members!
• We will be selling memberships for $5.

Best of luck to everyone on the application!

Next week is Thrive at UBC.  NutriSocial will  be holding an event Friday November 9 at 12:00 in MacMillan 260.  We will have 4 different booths set up:

1. Study snacks: ideas for healthy alternatives to snack food:

• Will have a hummus and pita sample!

• I love brownies, and luckily we will be handing out black bean brownie samples at his station.

3. Healthy comfort food: will have ideas for healthier alternatives to classic comfort food.  Will also have a “Soup Manual” which will provide easy steps to make any soup  you desire!

• Will have samples of a vegan vegetable and quinoa soup aka soul warming soup.

4. How to exercise anywhere: will give you ideas on how to incorporate little exercises into your everyday activities.

• Will be providing oranges!  Yum!

We hope you come out this Friday to experience all the wonderful food we will have available and to learn about how to keep healthy this winter!

We will have a guest speaker this Friday, October 26th at 12 p.m in Macmillan 260.

 Dietitian Heather McColl will be coming to our meeting this Friday.  The event is open to everyone.  Please bring a non-perishable food item to donate to the food bank!

Please see this link to see the topics we will be discussing in the meeting: Heather McColl: Let’s Talk Controversy- NutriSocial Meeting Topics 

Check out Heather’s blog here: http://freshsheetnutrition.com/tag/heather-mccoll/

Heather is a community dietitian who works for Overwaitea Foods (Save-on-Foods).

“Heather helps consumers find easy ways to make nutritious and tasty meals through recipe development, food styling, creative nutrition resources and marketing materials. Nutrition advice from Heather is always focused on the enjoyment of food; you’ll never get a ‘do not eat’ list from Heather. She is the co-author of two consumer friendly Save-On-Foods cookbooks and an editor and contributor for Dietitians of Canada cookbooks. You can see Heather’s practical meal solutions on Global TV Morning News and various other media.” (From Fresh Sheet Nutrition)